It really is very good. It could use a reduction in its Thompson quotient and they take the niceness a little too far. I still remember their Hobbit episode where Linda Holmes clearly hated it, but wouldn't say so and kept hiding behind "it's not for me" to avoid an assault by Internet neckbeards. Which is fine, I can…

For what it's worth, Spiderman and Xmen were the only superhero comics I liked as a kid. I was raised to hate joy, though.

He'd be hard to successfully lynch.

It's awesome because it's a competent power ballad you wouldn't have been shocked to her on the radio, also.

AJFA's lyrics certainly had some influence on me becoming a far lefty.

I'm cool with bleeps and bloops, or thumps and booms, myself. I don't think I've run across a genre yet that I thought didn't have anything worth hearing.

Sure. I started listening to this stuff in the early 90s just as it was pretty much dying and needed to be introduced to past referance points things like Priest, Maiden and Black Sabbath. Presumably, the metal kids of today need a similar service.

One man's mechanized ramble is another man's honest attempt to grapple with the world before him. But, to get things straight, your argument would be that I'm maladjusted because I did not engage you in an Internet yelling of insults because you inaccurately characterized what I'm like?

I think you're making an extra leap that isn't there. Science may have shown that
being exposed to be media depictions of violence desensitizes you to
more media depictions of violence, which seems obvious, but you're eliding the rather important step of whether that makes people more numb to actual violence. Getting…

One of the marks of being well-adjusted is to moderate one's behavior and demeanor to fit the context. This being the AV Club comments I used two naughty words and tried to make a witty pop culture reference.

When I was 16 I went to Legends of the Fall with my friends who were brother and sister.  The clerk asks me how old I am, I lie "17" and she sells me a ticket. Male friend says, truthfully, "18." Female friend, who has the same birthday as me, has some kind of honestly aneurysm and says "16." So mean clerk, who has…

This is my thought. The MPAA ratings system would be unconstitutional if enforced by a public entity, so why is the FTC dicking around with it?

Yeah. My parents mostly didn't give a fuck about movies and TV with weird exceptions (No Stand By Me, which I didn't see until I was 17 or so). And they especially didn't give a fuck about books. The let me read Lonesome Dove when I was in 5th grade with full knowledge of what was in it (all the stuff in the TV show…

I'm pretty much totally bald, though I keep my hair really short so I'm sure no one notices and I'm getting gray in my beard. I still get carded at clubs. I'd guess they want to filter out the people who are such total alkies and fuck ups as to get their license taken away by the court. I'd guess that sector of the…

When I was a clerk at a place that sold beer and I wanted to sell to my friends, I'd have them hand over their license for the benefit of the security camera.

My parents took me to a double feature of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Witness at the drive in when I was six. I saw Kelly McGillis' boobs pretending to be Amish and thereafter I turned away from God.

Glory was not rated R. It doesn't have anything in it objectionable to American sensibilities.

Well, the difference is that Cross is slumming whereas Creed is the slum.

John Newton was a sailor on slave ships early in his life, but quit the biz after experiencing a religious conversion. He wrote the hymn, not surprisingly, after he got all religious and he joined with William Wilberforce in getting the slave trade outlawed in Britain in 1807. Wiki actually claims that he was held as…

@avclub-7706d2dc2da6837340effd985dc620b6:disqus That's why I didn't bother to see it. It looked much less like a Hobbit movie than a prequel to Peter Jackson's version of Lord of Rings. I really liked the Jackson movies, but the Hobbit as a book is just such a nice, different sort of story it's disappointing that…